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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Literacy rate > Males aged 15-24

DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.".

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Seychelles 98.77 2008
2 Gabon 98.4 2008
3 Zimbabwe 98.3 2008
4 Equatorial Guinea 97.6 2008
5 Cape Verde 97.2 2008
6 South Africa 96.1 2008
7 Mauritius 95.4 2008
8 Sao Tome and Principe 94.7 2008
9 Botswana 93.8 2008
=10 Swaziland 91.8 2008
=10 Kenya 91.8 2008
=12 Eritrea 91.1 2008
=12 Namibia 91.1 2008
14 Uganda 89.1 2008
15 Sudan 88.6 2008
16 Cameroon 88.2 2008
17 Togo 87 2008
18 Malawi 86.5 2008
19 Comoros 85.7 2008
20 Lesotho 85.6 2008
21 Zambia 82.1 2008
22 Angola 80.8 2008
23 Ghana 80.6 2008
24 Tanzania 78.7 2008
25 Nigeria 78.3 2008
26 Mozambique 77.7 2008
27 Guinea-Bissau 77.6 2008
28 Rwanda 77.1 2008
29 Burundi 76.5 2008
30 Madagascar 72.65 2008
31 Central African Republic 72.1 2008
32 Cote d'Ivoire 72 2008
33 Mauritania 70.5 2008
=34 Liberia 70.1 2008
=34 The Gambia 70.1 2008
36 Democratic Republic of the Congo 68.8 2008
37 Guinea 66.5 2008
38 Sierra Leone 66 2008
39 Benin 64.1 2008
40 Ethiopia 62.2 2008
41 Senegal 58.13 2006
42 Chad 53.5 2008
43 Niger 52.45 2005
44 Mali 47.38 2006
45 Burkina Faso 46.73 2007

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